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  • Part 2 of Q&A With Cal Shintani, Oceus SVP and Chief Growth Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Part 2 of Q&A With Cal Shintani, Oceus SVP and Chief Growth Officer

    This is part two of our in-depth conversation with Cal Shintani, senior vice president and chief growth officer at Oceus Networks. Click here to read part one. ExecutiveBiz: Where are the opportunities for broadband wireless at the state and local levels? Cal Shintani: Most of the state and local governments are watching FirstNet and are […] More

  • Executive Profile: Dave Rey, EVP of Sales for Salesforce.com's North American Public Sector Arm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Dave Rey, EVP of Sales for Salesforce.com’s North American Public Sector Arm

    Dave Rey is the executive vice president of sales for salesforce.com‘s North American public sector business and leads the sales team’s efforts for that region. He previously served as head of the public sector infrastructure business at Oracle, where he held leadership roles for the technology and applications federal software business during his 17 years with the company. He has also […] More

  • General Dynamics Previews Cyber Sensor Threat ID Tech; Nadia Short Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Previews Cyber Sensor Threat ID Tech; Nadia Short Comments

    General Dynamics has developed a new National Security Agency-approved sensor software product for security operators to detect and prevent network intrusions with the company’s TACLANE-1G encryptor. The company said Thursday the TACLANE Trusted Sensor Software features deep packet inspection components for network filtering functions and to issue alerts for users to monitor any component of a system. TACLANE Trusted […] More

  • Doreen Harwood to Lead Leidos' Assurance, Integration, Manufacturing Operations; Lou Von Thaer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Doreen Harwood to Lead Leidos’ Assurance, Integration, Manufacturing Operations; Lou Von Thaer Comments

    Doreen Harwood, formerly a program executive officer at the U.S. National Security Agency, has joined Leidos as manager of assurance, integration and manufacturing operations within the integrated systems group. The more than 35-year federal government veteran will lead the organization that provides system integration and deployment, agile development, adaptive manufacturing and cyberspace services in the […] More

  • Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Hosts NSA’s Cyber Defense Training Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Hosts NSA’s Cyber Defense Training Exercise

    Parsons has helped to kick off National Security Agency-run cyber defense exercise that runs between April 13 and April 17 to help train students on secure network operations. At least 100 students from the U.S. service academies and the Royal Military College of Canada are participating in the event at Parsons’ Columbia, Md.-based cyber center, Parsons said Tuesday. Mary Ann […] More

  • NSA Certifies General Dynamics' Network Encryption Tech Offering; Nadia Short, Chris Marzilli Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSA Certifies General Dynamics’ Network Encryption Tech Offering; Nadia Short, Chris Marzilli Comment

    General Dynamics has obtained certification from the U.S. National Security Agency for a technology that seeks to help government agencies manage and secure up to 10 gigabytes of network-level data. NSA approved the company’s Taclane-10G network encryptor to help protect government information classified as top secret or below that category, General Dynamics said Monday. Nadia […] More

  • CTU Named a Nat'l Center of Academic Excellence in Info Assurance, Cyber Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTU Named a Nat’l Center of Academic Excellence in Info Assurance, Cyber Defense

    Colorado Technical University has received designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance and Cyber Defense from the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security. The university said Monday that the designation is in recognition of its computer science and information technology program offerings based on the two agencies’ selection criteria issued in 2014. […] More

  • Exelis Memory Stick Gets NSA Certification; Mark Adams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Memory Stick Gets NSA Certification; Mark Adams Comments

    Exelis has obtained a National Security Agency certification for the company’s self-encrypting memory drive. The memory stick is built to give users data-at-rest, data-in-transit, communications, networking and storage services, Exelis said Thursday. Mark Adams, vice president and general manager of Exelis’ specialty applications business, said the company has gone through “successive rounds” to get NSA certifications […] More

  • Chris Finan: Malware Against Mobile Payment to ‘Become More Prevalent’ in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Finan: Malware Against Mobile Payment to ‘Become More Prevalent’ in 2015

    Chris Finan, head of Manifold Security, believes malware that targets mobile payment credentials “will become more prevalent” in 2015, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Cyber experts forecast that hackers will resort to new methods for cyber attacks against government agencies and commercial entities, Aliya Sternstein reports. Finan, a former White House cyber adviser and cyberwarfare planner for the Defense […] More

  • DoD Customer Takes in Harris Falcon III Wideband Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Customer Takes in Harris Falcon III Wideband Radio

    Harris Corp. has delivered the first Falcon III RF-330E-TR production units to a Defense Department customer as part of its programs for handheld, manpack and small form factor radios. The company said Thursday the RF-330E-TR is a wideband team radio used for tactical communications in theater with functions to monitor radio status and network availability. It is compliant with DoD’s Rifleman Radio […] More

  • NSA Certifies Harris Falcon III Manpack Radio; George Helm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSA Certifies Harris Falcon III Manpack Radio; George Helm Comments

    Harris Corp. has attained certification from the National Security Agency for the company’s new multi-channel manpack radio system. Harris will be able to deploy Falcon III RF-340M radios up to the Top Secret level of secure voice and data communications under the Type-1 certification, the company said Wednesday. The Army intends to use the multi-channel manpack in its […] More

  • NSA Accredits 7 Companies for Cyber Incident Response Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSA Accredits 7 Companies for Cyber Incident Response Services

    The National Security Agency has issued cyber incident response assistance accreditation to seven companies under the National Security Cyber Assistance Program, the Defense Daily Network reported Wednesday. Following an assessment of 21 focus areas, such as incident analysis and network traffic data collection, the NSA accredited Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, CrowdStrike Services, FireEye, Mandiant, Maddrix and Verizon. NSA’s information assurance directorate also evaluated the […] More